Wildflower Bloom Reports for Central Oregon

Columbia & Great Basins of Central Oregon

The Blue Mountains East of Pendleton, OR

Squaw Creek Overlook

May 29, 1999

Squaw Creek Canyon viewed downstream towards the Umatilla River, from the Squaw Creek Overlook.......May 29, 1999.

Filaree: Erodium cicutarium

Small-flowered Blue-eyed Mary: Collinsia parviflora

Miner's Lettuce: Montia perfoliata

Bedstraw/Cleavers: Galium aparine

Dandelion: Taraxacum species

Common Dead Nettle: Lamium amplexicaule

Small-flowered Prairie Star: Lithophragma parviflora

Long-leaf Milkvetch: Astragalus reventus var. reventus?

Arrow-leaf Balsamroot: Balsamorhiza sagittata

Desert Parsley: Lomatium- unidentified as of yet.

Bitter Cherry: Prunus emarginata var. emarginata

Northern Wyethia: Wyethia amplexicaulis

Slender-fruited Desert Parsley: Lomatium leptocarpum

Narrow-leaf pussy-toes: Antennaria stenophylla

Ballhead Waterleaf: Hydrophyllum capitatum

Red Besseya: Besseya rubra

Paintbrush: Castilleja

Elegant Cats-ear: Calochortus elegans

Prairie Smoke: Geum triflorum

Sharpttooth Angelica: Angelica arguta

Western Groundsel: Senecio integerrimus var. exaltatus

Piper's Anemone: Anemone piperi

Midget Phlox: Microsteris gracilis

Upland Larkspur: Delphinium nuttallianum

Larkspur: Delphinium sp.

Brown's Peony: Paeonia brownii

Cous: Lomatium cous

Douglas' Harvest Lily: Brodiaea douglasii

Swamp Onion: Allium madidum

Yellow Bells: Fritillaria pudica

Balsamroot: Balsamorhiza sagittata-hirsuta Cross between adjacent plants. Wid inflorescences with many ray flowers, leaves hairy, mostly non-parted, but with large serrations.

Hairy Balsamroot: Balsamorhiza hirsuta

Douglas' Onion?: Allium douglasii Almost in bloom

Naked Broomrape: Orobanche uniflora

Common Monkeyflower: Mimulus guttatus

Meadow Death-camus: Zigadenus venenosus

Balloon Milk-vetch: Astragalus whitneyi

Pineapple Weed: Matricaria matricarioides


Paul Slichter